Inspired by Coral, These Scientists Are Regrowing Bone Under Some of the Most Challenging Conditions
Medical scientists in China have developed a new method for regrowing bone after Steroid-Induced Osteonecrosis of the Femoral Head.
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Secret Self-Healing Powers of the Brain Revealed in Landmark Study, Upending Past Thinking on Adult Brain’s Regenerative Abilities
Scientists reveal the adult brain possesses self-healing powers far greater than previously assumed, according to new research.
Hidden Charcoal Inside a Famous French Cave Just Rewrote the Timeline of Its Ice Age Paintings
A recent study has identified charcoal in the cave paintings at France’s Font-de-Gaume, overturning the long-held assumption that these paintings lacked the carbon needed for radiocarbon dating.
“Magic-Angle” Graphene Uses Faint Light to Transform an Insulator Into a Metal, Revealing a New Way to Make the Unseen Visible
“Magic-Angle” Graphene turns from an insulator into a metal under faint light, paving the way for ultra-sensitive radiation sensors.
Did Sugar Help Build the Human Brain? New Research Challenges the Meat-Driven Evolution Theory
New research suggests sugars and carbohydrate-rich foods may have helped fuel the dramatic growth of the human brain over 4 million years.
“One Origin of the Genetic Code, but Two Origins of Life”: Scientists Reveal the Ancient Evolutionary Split That Gave Rise to All Life on Earth
An international research team has uncovered how LUCA, the last ancestor of all life on Earth, split into the first two branches.
The “Einstein Tile” That Broke Math Is Now Twisting Light Into Pinwheels
The single tile that solved a 50-year geometry problem turns out to scatter light no ordinary crystal can match. It’s the first physics ever wrung out of the famous "einstein tile."
Scientists Discover Evidence of a Mysterious ‘Ghost’ Human Ancestor Hidden in Our DNA
Scientists uncover evidence of a mysterious ghost human lineage hidden in modern DNA, reshaping humanity's evolutionary story.
New Experiments Reveal Whether Ultracold Neutrons Magically Switch Between our Universe and a Mirror Universe
After months of experiments hunting for a mirror universe with 25 billion ultracold neutrons, scientists have finally revealed the results.
Britain’s Power Grid Has a Blind Spot for Extreme Solar Storms, New Research Reveals
In May 2024, the strongest geomagnetic storm in two decades exposed important gaps in how the UK monitors and prepares its power grid, satellites, and aviation for future extreme space weather.
The World War II Atomic Blast Over Hiroshima Created a Previously Unidentified Multicomponent Metallic Alloy
The extreme energy, temperature, and pressure conditions during the World War II atomic bombing of Hiroshima created an all-new metal alloy.
The Brain Has a Flexible Sense of Time That Can Split Across Regions, New Research Reveals
When the brain tracks time, it must decide whether its regions should rely on a shared timing signal or maintain separate representations.
Satellite Images Revealed Something Unusual About the Color of These Antarctic Islands—Here’s the Odd Reason Behind Their Appearance
Satellite imagery reveals why the Danger Islands have an odd pink-orange color, and what that means for this fragile ecosystem.
5,000-Year-Old Blue Pigment Reveals Evidence of Ancient Egyptian Nanotechnology—Now It’s Finding New Life in Biomedical Imaging
5000-year-old nanotechnology from the ancient world known as "Egyptian blue" is offering innovative modern uses in biomedical imaging.
Backyard Mosquito Sprays May Be Helping These Blood-Sucking Parasites Evolve, Making Them Resistant to Insecticide
Recent research suggests localized mosquito-control practices may create conditions that favor the evolution of insecticide resistance.
The 5,700-Year-Old Psychedelic Drug Mescaline Finally Got a Modern Brain Scan, And The Results Were Unexpected
The first proper brain scan of mescaline found the drug ignoring the regions where psychedelic research has spent a decade, and settling on the one structure no one really expected.
New Gravity Theory Suggests How Cosmic Order Emerges Despite Rising Entropy
A recent study offers a mathematical explanation for how cosmic structures form while still obeying the second law of thermodynamics.
New Research Reveals How Traveling Brain Waves Allow Us to Predict, Reconstruct, and Perceive the World
New research suggests traveling brain waves in the visual cortex help humans predict, reconstruct, and perceive the physical world.
‘Mechanical’ Properties of This Predatory Sea Worm’s Jaws Could Inspire a New Class of ‘Bio-Metal’ Material
A predatory sea worm known as Perinereis cultrifera possesses jaws that do not fit neatly into either biological or metallic categories.
Researchers Have Created a 3D Thermal Cloak That Renders Objects Invisible to Heat
A three-dimensional thermal cloak can conceal objects from heat, paving the way toward new military stealth technologies.
A New Solution to the Dinosaur-Killer Meteorite Mystery Creates Fresh Questions
A new analysis of debris from a 66-million-year-old meteorite that scientists call the dinosaur-killer has revealed another origin mystery.
Citizen Scientists Helped Reveal How Fatherhood Evolved in Spider Relatives
A new study reveals harvestmen, or daddy longlegs, account for more than half of all paternal care cases documented among arthropods.
NASA’s Psyche Mission Captures Crescents and Surface Details During Recent Martian Flyby
New imagery released by NASA has revealed a growing “crescent” and surface details on Mars obtained by the agency’s Psyche spacecraft.
Scientists May Have Finally Solved Earth’s Greatest Extinction Mystery
A recent study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that differences in physiology, metabolism, and oxygen use helped determine which marine animals survived the Great Dying catastrophe.
“A Major Milestone in the Search for Life on Other Planets”: First Ever Detection of an Atmosphere Around an Earth-Like, Habitable Zone Rocky Exoplanet
In a major boost to the search for life, Harvard astronomers have detected an atmosphere around a habitable-zone, Earth-like rocky exoplanet.
Astronomers Uncovered a Hidden Bubble Inside the Orion Nebula
A key component of the Orion Nebula had evaded detection by astronomers until now, according to newly published research.
Deep Beneath the Atlantic, an Eerie “Lost City” is Feeding Legions of Lifeforms That Thrive Where Sunlight Never Reaches
Earth’s hidden plumbing system may be feeding one of its strangest ecosystems: the Lost City hydrothermal field in the Atlantic Ocean.
An ‘Asteroid’ Tracked Since 1998 Made an Unexplained Orbital Shift—Now Astronomers Say It’s Something Far More Mysterious
Astronomers say an asteroid recently failed to appear where it was predicted to be, revealing a "dark" twist after decades of observations.
Scientists May Have Finally Solved One of Human Evolution’s Biggest Mysteries: When Our Ancestors Grew Larger
Scientists may have solved when human body size took its biggest leap, revealing a more complex path through evolution.
Scientists Find Intense Breathwork Can Trigger Psychedelic-Like States and Lasting Psychological Changes
Breathwork may trigger psychedelic-like states, emotional breakthroughs, and psychological insights without drugs, new study finds.
Modern Neuroscience Is Starting to Look Surprisingly Similar to Freud’s Theory of the Mind
A new study finds surprising parallels between Freud’s theories of the mind and modern neuroscience, suggesting the brain may work as a prediction machine.
AI Identifies the Most Effective Ways to Measure Water’s Hidden Structure
Researchers at the University of Osaka developed a neural network to test 16 different 'structural descriptors,' which are mathematical tools for measuring how ordered or disordered water molecules are at the microscopic scale.
These Unusual Step-Like Structures on Hillsides Baffled Darwin 150 Years Ago—Now Scientists Finally Know Their Origins
An unusual phenomenon that has been recognized around the world for more than a century has finally been resolved: what are the origins of the distinctive, stair-like ridges that form on steep hillsides?
This Color-Changing Material Could Give Robots a New Way to Detect Touch
Engineers at Queen Mary University of London have created a tactile sensor, described in a study published in Science Advances, that allows robots to detect touch using a simple camera.
AI ‘Ghosts’ Offer New Opportunities for Conversations with Deceased Loved Ones, Study Reveals
A recent study documented a participant using an AI model to simulate a conversation with her late grandmother.
ESA’s Euclid Telescope Just Spotted Two Record-Breaking Ancient Giants Among the Most Remote Objects in the Cosmos
The ESA's Euclid Space Telescope has spotted more than 30 ancient quasars that rank among the oldest and most remote space objects ever seen.
How Jellyfish Can ‘Miraculously’ Heal Without Scars Has Long Remained a Mystery—Scientists Now Know Their Secret
Jellyfish can close a wound in real time, without stitches, scabs, or scars. Now scientists have unlocked the secrets of how they do it.
How Did a Crab Become Trapped in a Bottle with an Opening Too Small to Enter? Once-Baffled Scientists Say They’ve Solved the Mystery
An oceanic mystery has unfolded with the discovery of a crab in a plastic bottle with an opening too small for the crustacean to fit through.
Deep Inside the Earth’s Molten Core, a Sudden ‘Reversal’ Now Has Scientists Searching for Answers
The molten iron core deep within our planet could be much more dynamic and complicated than previously known, new research suggests.
NASA’s Curiosity Rover is Investigating Unusual Polygon Structures That Look Like a “Giant Martian Honeycomb”
An odd-looking series of polygon-shaped structures have been discovered on Mars, as revealed in new images obtained by NASA’s Curiosity Rover.
The Unconscious Brain May Be More Capable Than Scientists Realized
While a patient is fully anesthetized and unresponsive, neurons in the hippocampus continue to process language, distinguish different types of words, and generate neural activity consistent with predicting upcoming words.
Earth May Have Been Sending Microscopic Hitchhikers Toward Venus for a Billion Years
A new model suggests that asteroid impacts on Earth may have occasionally launched microscopic material into space that could have reached Venus’s atmosphere over billions of years.
A Mysterious Circular Structure Buried Under the North Sea Has Revealed New Evidence of an Ancient Cataclysmic Event
Scientists have solved the mystery of an unusual circular structure beneath the North Sea that has been debated for more than two decades.
Scientists Used Water to Uncover a Strange, ‘Invisible’ Quantum Phenomenon That Remained Elusive for Decades
A team of physicists set out to recreate a 60-year-old quantum mystery using a large water tank.
Yellowstone Supervolcano Eruptions Aren’t Caused by What Scientists Used to Think They Were
Yellowstone and other volcanic supereruptions may work completely differently than previously assumed, according to researchers.
The First Ancient Protein Analysis of Homo Naledi Has Revealed a New Burial Mystery
A recent study, published in Cell, marks the first ancient protein analysis of Homo naledi and raises the possibility that the Dinaledi Chamber may contain predominantly, or possibly exclusively, female individuals.
New Research Suggests Human Laughter May Hold a 15-Million-Year Old Secret
Human laughter may share a 15-million-year-old evolutionary rhythm with our primate ancestors, offering clues about the origins of speech.
Scientists Have Discovered an Ancient Brain Circuit That Filters Distractions
Before the prefrontal cortex evolved, another system in the brain may already have been directing attention.
Something is Swarming in Swirls of Green in the Black Sea—and These NASA Images Captured the Phenomenon from Orbit
NASA orbital imagery of the Black Sea has revealed eerie-looking swirls of turquoise-green swarming in its waters.
CERN Provides Good News on Climate Change as Nature Proves Unexpectedly Resilient
New climate change research conducted at CERN offers rare, hopeful news about the planet’s resilience to global warming.